Oblique aerial view.
SC 573041
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1981
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 573041
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of PB 2057
Scope and Content Fort, Mitchellhill Rings, Scottish Borders Situated on the east spur of White Hill, high above the Kilbucho Burn, this heavily defended fort is roughly circular on plan. The fort was succeeded by a circular stone-walled settlement, which is concentrically placed within the interior. Viewed from the south-west, this aerial photograph clearly shows the ramparts and ditches of the earlier fort, although the settlement is barely visible in the interior. Later rig-and-furrow cultivation can be seen in the heather beyond the fort. Large numbers of forts are found throughout the Border counties and into Lanarkshire. Most were occupied in the middle centuries of the first millennium BC and some, as here, reveal evidence that they succeeded by lightly enclosed settlements. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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